Mark,
No worries at all. I appreciate your help. I think I was able to narrow down my problem with the system slowdown. Ended up being a stray process that happened to pop up at the same time as the teaming. Took forever to find it. Just seemed like a coincidence.
I ended up teaming my 82574L on-board NIC with the CT add-on NIC. I created a LAG team with the default settings.
All seemed to work well except I am seeing a strange problem that maybe you can help with or explain.
Like I said, I created the team with the above ports. When I check the status of the Team it only shows a 1 Gbps speed. I then check the properties of the team and notice that one of my ports is in Standby and one is Active.
I have even tried to Force one port as Master and Force one as Slave which didn't work. I then tried to set the CT card as primary in the team and the other as secondary but I still can't get the CT card out of Standby.
If I disable then enable the team it will pop up as 2 Gbps with both ports active.
What am I doing wrong? Could this be a setting with my switch? I am using the Cisco SG200-08 switch.
Thanks again for your help.
Regards,
Toby